Winnie The Pooh
We know it sounds weird, but Winnie The Pooh is a banned character in China. In 2013, when Barack Obama visited China, things didn’t turn out well for the Chinese president. A photo of Barack Obama and XI Jinping walking together went viral, getting memeified everywhere on the Chinese Internet. Memers started making fun of the Chinese president by comparing him with A.A. Milne’s uber-popular fictional character, Winnie The Pooh.
As this incident was damaging and made fun of the president’s reputation, the Chinese Government kicked Winnie The Pooh out of the nation’s borders. The Government also banned the phrase ‘Winnie The Pooh” from Twitter’s Chinese alternative, Weibo. And it is safe to say that as long as Xi Jinping remains the President of China, the ban on Winnie The Pooh will remain in effect.
8 Strange Things Banned In China
Let us begin by asking you two simple questions. First, are you someone who spends a lot of time scrolling through Instagram and can’t even imagine life without it? Second, are you planning to visit or move to China? If the answer to both these questions is a yes, then, unfortunately, you’ll have to give up on one thing – IG or China! Because China has banned Instagram.
Instagram banned. Seems quite irrational, right? Well, not for the Chinese Government that completely censored it starting September 2014 to stop people from sharing instigating images during the pro-democracy protests.
But Instagram is not the only one thing, China has a long list of banned artifacts – from popular websites such as Facebook and YouTube to some peculiar stuff such as cartoon characters and flowers. And we are going to look at some of them in this article.
So brace yourselves for the eight most strange things China has banned for various reasons.
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